[Test of pharmacologic bronchial stimulation in the assessment of work suitability]

The suitability to the work is one of the main items of occupational medical doctor's activity, often developed with very few informations about the effective features a worker is about to carry out. Consequently, every appraisal of work suitability is based almost exclusively on clinical analysis. A peculiarity of the problem is the one strictly connected with the Allergic Pathology, since it brings a condition in which the subject under medical exams don't present any operative-limiting pathological condition; he could, anyway, presents a slight limitation connected to a subjective response toward a eventually workplace-based specific allergenic agent. It's important, therefore, the need to show, in case of workers exposed to potentially allergenic substances, that subjective conditions who could cause an abnormal reactivity in presence of a potentially efficient stimulation. The main intention of this piece of work is to develop a study about the utility of bronchial challenge with methacoline in a context of evaluation of work suitability for those allergenic substances exposed jobs.